Luana Vicente
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30 January 1994
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| Born | Luana Tamara de Oliveira Vicente 30 January 1994 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Badminton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Handedness | Right | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest ranking | 131 (WS 5 April 2012) 35 (WD 8 July 2016) 74 (XD 1 September 2016) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Luana Tamara de Oliveira Vicente (born 30 January 1994) is a Brazilian badminton player who won a silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games.
Vicente was born on 30 January 1994 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[1] Her younger sister Lohaynny Vicente is also an international badminton player. When Luana was six, her father, a drug dealer, was killed in a shootout with the police.[2] Following her father's death, her mother moved the family from the west of the city to Chacrinha, a favela in the north of Rio. She now lives with her sister in Campinas, São Paulo, in a house funded by the Brazilian Badminton Federation.[2]
Career
Both Vicente and her sister began playing badminton through a programme set up by a coach to teach the sport to kids in the community.[2]
Vicente won a silver medal in the women's doubles at the 2015 Pan American Games held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, playing alongside her sister .[2] The pair defeated Daigenis Saturria and Bermary Polanco of the Dominican Republic in the quarterfinals then Alex Bruce and Phyllis Chan of Canada in the semifinals. In the final they lost to the American pairing of Eva Lee and Paula Lynn Obañana by a score of 14−21, 6−21, to finish as runners-up.[3]
Vicente competed at the 2018 South American Games, winning the gold medal in the team event, and also the silver medals in the women's and mixed doubles event.[4]
